| tsetse and other biting fly responses to nzi traps baited with octenol, phenols and acetone. | octenol (1-octen-3-ol), acetone, 4-methylphenol, 3-n-propylphenol, and other potential attractants (human urine, stable fly faeces), as well as guiacol, creosol (potential repellents), were tested as baits for biting flies in north america using standard phthalogen blue if3gm cotton nzi traps, or similar commercial polyester traps. baits were tested during the summers of 2001-04 at a residence in canada and during january-august 2001 at a dairy in the u.s.a. behaviour in the presence of octenol ... | 2007 | 17373949 |
| attraction of stomoxys sp. to various fruits and flowers in mali. | the attraction of three stomoxys species to 26 fruits and 26 flowers of different plant species was investigated in two different sites in mali during 2008. stomoxys niger bilineatus grunberg (diptera: muscidae) was attracted to a wider spectrum of species, significantly attracted by four fruits and eight flowers compared with control traps, whereas s. sitiens rondani (diptera: muscidae) was attracted to six fruits and seven flowers of different plants, and s. calcitrans l. (diptera: muscidae) w ... | 2012 | 22324477 |